Re: McAin't: maverick flyboy of 1967

"cmdr buzz corey" <cmdr-buzz-corey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Jul 13, 9:47 am, Middle Class Warrior <eeld...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> $100 fill-up wrote:
>> > McCain's most horrendous loss occurred in 1967 on the USS Forrestal. 
>> > Well,
>> > not horrendous for him. The starter motor switch on the A4E Skyhawk 
>> > allowed
>> > fuel to pool in the engine. When the aircraft was wet-started, an 
>> > impressive
>> > flame would shoot from the tail. It was one of the ways young
hot-shots 
>> > got
>> > their jollies. Investigators and survivors took the position that 
>> > McCain
>> > deliberately wet-started to harass the F4 pilot directly behind him. 
>> > The cook
>> > off launched an M34 Zuni rocket that tore through the Skyhawk's fuel 
>> > tank,
>> > released a thousand pound bomb, and ignited a fire that killed the 
>> > pilot plus
>> > 167 men. Before the tally of dead and dying was complete, the son and
>> > grandson of admirals had been transferred to the USS Oriskany. :^)
>>
>> He should have been booted out of the USN. If this is true and I
suspect
>> it is, he is unfit to be president.
>
> It isn't true, just more made up nonsense by the radical left-wing
> nuts.

His fini****ng in the bottom 1% of his class is not made up -- & since his 
father & grandfather were decorated graduates -- I think one might have a 
suspicion that he got help getting to graduate.....